I was trying to get the preference files to work with plugins, but it doesn't seem to find them. Do they work or are they only for file-types? (As I only see wordwrap?) Would be nice to be able to use it in plugins.

I tried using window.options().getString('name') and view.options().getString('name'), but both returning None.

You can access the options from plugins, yes. There's no option called 'name', so calling view.options().get('name') will return None. Take a look around the Preferences/Default File Type.sublime-options for a list of available options.